Island, Joseph Floch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1968.150
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender rioutous island which extends itself due east of New York - and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out...
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It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender rioutous island which extends itself due east of New York - and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out...
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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